Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode
-This is the to-do list for Wget. There is no timetable of when we plan to
-implement these features -- this is just a list of things it'd be nice to see in
-Wget. Patches to implement any of these items would be gladly accepted. The
-items are not listed in any particular order (except that recently-added items
-may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible
-changes.
+This is the to-do list for Wget. There is no timetable of when we
+plan to implement these features -- this is just a list of features
+we'd like to see in Wget, as well as a list of problems that need
+fixing. Patches to implement these items are likely to be accepted.
+The items are not listed in any particular order (except that
+recently-added items may tend towards the top). Not all of these
+represent user-visible changes.
+
+* Currently Wget mirrors remote FTP permissions whenever it retrieves
+ the directory listing. This is undesirable for most users, as
+ permissions like "664" are frequently used on the servers, which
+ might not be what the user wants. Wget should be changed not to
+ mirror remote FTP permissions by default. There should be a new
+ option add an option that enables this back on.
+
+* Implement a `--disable-dns-cache' option that disables DNS caching.
+ It is trivial to implement; simply avoid calling cache_host_lookup
+ at the end of lookup_host.
+
+* Honor `Content-Disposition: XXX; filename="FILE"' when creating the
+ file name.
+
+* Should allow retries with multiple downloads when using -O on
+ regular files. As the source comment says: "A possible solution to
+ [rewind not working with multiple downloads] would be to remember
+ the file position in the output document and to seek to that
+ position, instead of rewinding."
+
+* Wget shouldn't delete rejected files that were not downloaded, but
+ just found on disk because of `-nc'. For example, `wget -r -nc
+ -A.gif URL' should allow the user to get all the GIFs without
+ removing any of the existing HTML files.
* Be careful not to lose username/password information given for the
URL on the command line.
-* Support FWTK firewalls. It should work like this: if ftp_proxy is
- set to an ftp URL, Wget should assume the use of an FWTK firewall.
- It should connect to the proxy URL, log in as username@target-site,
- and continue as usual.
-
* Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to
get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint